• Paper

    Alexandros Gasparatos, Associate Professor

A research paper from Assoc. Prof. Alexandros Gasparatos published at “Environmental Research Letters”

Magroves are some of the most biodiverse and productive ecosystems on the planet. Due to their extensive degradation over the past decades, mangrove restoration actions are increasingly promoted to ensure the sustained delivery of the benefits provided by mangroves. However, mangrove restoration actions often fail to select properly the appropriate sites and species for mangrove restoration, which affects their effectiveness.

This paper develops a methodological approach that can inform the spatial planning of species-specific and mixed-species mangrove restoration, as well as the priority areas for mangrove restoration in terms of landscape connectivity. Although the focus is the Large Xiamen Bay ecosystem in China, the proposed technique can have applicability in other geographical contexts.

Research title:


Priority areas for mixed-species mangrove restoration: the suitable species in the right sites

Joint Researchers:


Jie Su, Bingchao Yin, Luzhen Chen and Alexandros Gasparatos

Journal:


Environmental Research Letters
Volume 17, Number 6 (2022)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6b48

Contact:


Alexandros Gasparatos
Associate Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives
https://ifi.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/people/gasparatos-alexandros/